The Happy Failure
Subtitle: Stories
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Classic Stories Edition (1)
Publisher: Harper Perennial Classic Stories
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780061773754
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- Authors, A-Z -- ( M ) -- Melville, Herman; Literature & Fiction -- Classics; Literature & Fiction -- Short Stories -- Anthologies; Literature & Fiction -- Short Stories -- United States; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- 19th Century; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Classics
Description: A selection of Herman Melville's greatest short stories.
Table of contents: title: Bartleby, the scrivener: a story of Wall-Street --; title: Cock-a-doodle-doo! or The crowing of the noble cock Beneventano --; title: The two temples --; title: The happy failure: a story of the River Hudson --; title: The lightning-rod man --; title: The fiddler --; title: The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids --; title: I and my chimney --; title: The piazza --; title: Daniel Orme --; title: The Beast of Beddegelert by Alex Burett